Brandon Triche -- who has launched four years of shots against even Jaspers -- has had a terrific career as a member of the Syracuse University Orange. After scoring 29 points against Seton Hall, he's coming off one of his best-ever statistical games in an SU uniform. Dennis Nett/The Post-StandardDennis Nett/The Post-Standard, 2011

Syracuse, N.Y. -- This amounts to the “How’d I Do?” start to the week, as in how’d my weekend forecast of last Friday work out? As there wasn’t much to misread, I did fine.

There'd been a reference to the NBA All-Star Game, which was played once again without much attention to defense on Sunday. Or at least there wasn't much attention to defense until the end of that affair when the West did what was necessary to beat the East. So, aside from predictable variations on the dunking theme, there wasn’t much new to be seen down there in Houston.

Leon Wood, though, was a sight. A different kind of sight, but a sight.

He’s 50 now (same as Michael Jordan!) and an NBA game official since 1996 who worked Sunday’s All-Star bash. But once upon a time he was a player -- an honest-to-goodness player in the NBA, who had been a college star at Fullerton Stage and an Olympic gold-medal winner (with Jordan as a teammate) before being chosen No. 10 overall by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 1984 draft.

Wood didn’t have a wondrous career, no. But he did average 6.4 points per game across 274 games (for six teams) in the NBA between 1984-’91 and currently blows a whistle in it. And that makes him a pretty interesting guy . . . a kind of Basketball Renaissance Man.

As for another of my thoughts, well, it was easy to suggest that the Syracuse University Orange would rebound from its loss in Connecticut three nights earlier and knock off Seton Hall on Saturday evening in Newark, which remains a bit less slightly than Oz, if you get my drift.

The final score was 76-65 and it was achieved, largely, because the Orange backcourt of Brandon Triche and Michael Carter-Williams performed wondrously by producing 43 points, 15 rebounds, eight assists, four steals and just two turnovers in a total of 80 minutes.

That not only made for decent work, but also SU’s 21st victory on the season. And, no, it was not a coincidence. At least not according to Carter-Williams.

“I think we do carry this team,” he said in the locker room after the Pirates had been defeated. “I think it starts with us. It starts with the guards. If we don’t play well, we’re not gonna win. So we’ve gotta play well.”

Carter-Williams, the lanky sophomore has, of course, made for an impactful presence all season. Mix talent with a 6-foot-6 frame and more than a bit of brass, and you’ve got quite a college weapon. But he’s a smart kid, too, and he realizes what he has in the 6-4 senior next to him out there on the court.

“You know, I think he’s capable of doing that every night,” Carter-Williams said once Triche had finishing schooling those in the Hall togs. “He’s just great. He’s an aggressive player. He plays great defense. He gets steals. And he’s great passing the ball. I think that his passing opens up his shooting.”

It did on Saturday, which was a good thing. It’ll need to continue to do so moving forward, which would properly be considered a must thing.

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